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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

Henrik Ibsen

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
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
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent

Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

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