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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
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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General Nature Possession Power Sea
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred

Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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