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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

Henrik Ibsen

There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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
I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Lying Myself Raise Revolution Truth
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
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Experience Life
It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Beginning Pick Understand Yourself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround

Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

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