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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen

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
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
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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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
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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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Animal Excuse Experiment Journal Politician Science
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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Belief Death Father Inheritance Ourselves Walk
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Ability Bird Independent Sing Throat
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
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

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