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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
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible 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
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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
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
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
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.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
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
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner

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