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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 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
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
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
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
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
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
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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

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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