Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: “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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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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