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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
HENRIK IBSEN

Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman

A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.

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