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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
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
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
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
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

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.

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