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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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 strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
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

A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.

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