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

Henrik Ibsen

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
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
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
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
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
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
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
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society

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