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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

Henrik Ibsen

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
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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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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

I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.

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