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

Henrik Ibsen

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
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
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Accomplishment Greatness Secret Yourself
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Afraid Capital Education Invention Machine Myself Science
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSEN

Cruel Myself Touch
There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Freedom Heart Knowledge Satisfaction Sweet
A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Bird Cage Forest Freedom Wild
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Known Myself Stand World
Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
HENRIK IBSEN

Count Society Yourself
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSEN

Fear Friendship Restriction
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.
HENRIK IBSEN

Friendship Lost Marriage

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

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