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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
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

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