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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
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
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
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking

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