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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

Henrik Ibsen

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 am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
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
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
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
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift

Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

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