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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.

Henrik Ibsen

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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Human Myself Responsibility Role
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
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
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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

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