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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

Henrik Ibsen

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self

It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

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