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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

Henrik Ibsen

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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General Nature Possession Power Sea
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Children Fake Home Lying School
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Extreme Mute Opinion Public
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty

Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

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