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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
Helmer: “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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Human Myself Responsibility Role
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

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