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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

Henrik Ibsen

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
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
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 not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
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
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
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
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.

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