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

Henrik Ibsen

Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking

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