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

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
HENRIK IBSEN

Friendship Live Myself Need
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself

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

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