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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life 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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
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
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
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself

I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

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