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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.

Henrik Ibsen

I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSEN

Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Deal Demand Life Right
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSEN

Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Health Myself Writing
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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
HENRIK IBSEN

Door Generation Myself Young
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSEN

Community Myself Preparation
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Sold Time Value Yourself
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSEN

Hustle Moaning Myself
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSEN

Alone Difference Oneself

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