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It is no use lying to one’s self.

Henrik Ibsen

It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
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

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