An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENI’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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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