I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: 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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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