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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Henrik Ibsen

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
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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