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The greatest victory is defeat.

Henrik Ibsen

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style

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