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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

Henrik Ibsen

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
I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Agony Death Execution Himself Willing
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
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
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
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
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
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
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
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 only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Destroy Existence Greatness Institution Task

To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.

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