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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.”

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
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
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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
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
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing

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