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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

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing 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
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
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
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
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 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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