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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.”

Henrik Ibsen

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
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
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSEN

Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSEN

Hustle Moaning Myself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Equality Myself Sacred
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSEN

Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
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
So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Life Myself Possible Realize
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSEN

Build Castle Easy

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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