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The strong must learn to be lonely.

Henrik Ibsen

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
HENRIK IBSEN

Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself

The strong must learn to be lonely.

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