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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

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
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 devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Allow Direction Learning Myself Need Possible Respect Working
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Fools Freedom Intelligence Lying Majority People Population Right
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution

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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