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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
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
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Head Machine Togetherness
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Borrow Debt Finding Home Life
NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Known Myself Stand World
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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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
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
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself
Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Fall Religion State
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
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
A friend married is a friend lost.
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Friendship Lost Marriage
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Action Leave Word
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
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
Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Appetite Food Friendship Medicine Money Yourself
The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Distance Man
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Himself Injustice Man Worst
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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Decent Health People Wasted Time

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

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