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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
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
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
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
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 live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred

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