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

Henrik Ibsen

NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Different Independent Oneself People Responsibility Sing
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
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
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
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
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
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
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
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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