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

Henrik Ibsen

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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
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
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Doubt Ground Stand Yourself
The strongest men are the most alone.
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Alone Man Strong
What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Be Yourself Myself Original Self Love
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Man Master Procrastination Punctual World
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
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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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth

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

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