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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Henrik Ibsen

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Sold Time Value Yourself
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Mass Myself Subject
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
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
Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Day Man Night Sorrow Woman
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life 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
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
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

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