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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Henrik Ibsen

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Cruel Myself Touch
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life

Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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