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The strong must learn to be lonely.

Henrik Ibsen

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate

The strong must learn to be lonely.

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