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

Henrik Ibsen

Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
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
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
HENRIK IBSEN

Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation

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

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