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Henrik Ibsen

The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
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.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

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