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The strong must learn to be lonely.

Henrik Ibsen

I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Feature Hold Man Right
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Decent Health People Wasted Time
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
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
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
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love

The strong must learn to be lonely.

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