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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 is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side 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
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
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
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
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
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
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
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
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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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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