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Henrik Ibsen

Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
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
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
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
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
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet

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