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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
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong

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