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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

Henrik Ibsen

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
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
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility

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