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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

Henrik Ibsen

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
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

To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

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