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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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’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
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround

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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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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