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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

Henrik Ibsen

In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
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
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
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
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

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