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

Henrik Ibsen

A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself

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