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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

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
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
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 don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
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

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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