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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.

Henrik Ibsen

It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
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
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself

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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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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