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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

So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
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
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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 spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society

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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