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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.

Henrik Ibsen

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
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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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
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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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
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
I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Fact Imagination Myself Present Willing
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
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
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
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

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