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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

Henrik Ibsen

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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
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
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
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
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
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
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
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
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst

What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

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