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Henrik Ibsen

A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young

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