An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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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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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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