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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
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
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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
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
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation

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