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

Henrik Ibsen

In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
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
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve

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