An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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