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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.

Henrik Ibsen

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Fear Friendship Restriction
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
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
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize

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