An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENPublic opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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 strong must learn to be lonely.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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