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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.

Henrik Ibsen

Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Food Friendship Happiness Important Material Money Peace Reality Value Wisdom
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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
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
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
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing

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