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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

Henrik Ibsen

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.

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