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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.

Henrik Ibsen

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSEN

Experience Life
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Beginning Pick Understand Yourself

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