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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred

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