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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSEN

Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
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
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSEN

Lying Myself Writing
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSEN

Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
HENRIK IBSEN

Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSEN

Feature Hold Man Right
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man

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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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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