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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
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
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
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
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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
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
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
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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