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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

Henrik Ibsen

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
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
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Freedom Health Myself Writing
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Finance Follow Rest Sports
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
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
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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Belief Inheritance Mom Myself Thinking
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
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
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

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