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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.

Henrik Ibsen

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
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
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
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
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World

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