Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENLook into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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