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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Henrik Ibsen

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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God Individual Life Man Struggle
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Friendship Live Myself Need
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Lying Myself Writing
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
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
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
A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Frame Judgement Man Point Present Society System View Woman
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

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