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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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 sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
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
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release

Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.

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