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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.

Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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
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
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Door Generation Myself Young
Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Deal Demand Life Right
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
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
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Right Side Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong

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