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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

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
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
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
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
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman

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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