It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
HENRIK IBSENCastles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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