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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.

Henrik Ibsen

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
HENRIK IBSEN

Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
HENRIK IBSEN

Action Leave Word
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSEN

Freedom Society Spirituality Truth

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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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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