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1  Yes, ma'am, I quite understand.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
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2  But I don't understand all this.
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3  I don't understand it at all, Nora.
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4  But we must come to some understanding.
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5  Yes, now I am beginning to understand thoroughly.
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6  I must think over things for myself and get to understand them.
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7  Ah, I understand; it is recollections of the past that scare you.
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8  You don't understand the conditions of the world in which you live.
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9  I have had to save a little here and there, where I could, you understand.
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10  Certainly Torvald does understand how to make a house dainty and attractive.
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11  I must stand quite alone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me.
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12  You don't understand me, and I have never understood you either--before tonight.
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13  I understand very well to what lengths a man like you might be driven by despair.
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14  An exit ought always to be effective, Mrs Linde; but that is what I cannot make Nora understand.
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15  This unhappy secret must be disclosed; they must have a complete understanding between them, which is impossible with all this concealment and falsehood going on.
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16  I can quite understand that your friend is not very anxious to expose herself to the chance of rubbing shoulders with me; and I quite understand, too, whom I have to thank for being turned off.
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