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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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

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