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

Henrik Ibsen

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
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
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
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 spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Action Impact Impression Oneself Value Word
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself

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

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