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

Henrik Ibsen

An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
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

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