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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

Henrik Ibsen

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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Deal Demand Life Right
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
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
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
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.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
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 is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.

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