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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life

Henrik Ibsen

What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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
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
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
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 hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right

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