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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

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