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

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
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
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
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
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
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
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Crave Happiness Possession Revolution Simplicity World
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret 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
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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

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