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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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