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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

Henrik Ibsen

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner

The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.

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