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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

Henrik Ibsen

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’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
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
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
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
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
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

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