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

Henrik Ibsen

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Crave Happiness Life Mark Spirit
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
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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Character Himself Modeling Rate
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
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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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Myself Run Ship
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
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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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Heart Hold Live Mindset Troll
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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Deal Demand Life Right
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Hold Judgement Poetry Soul Yourself
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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Known Myself Right Yourself
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
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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Chaos Law Misery Myself Order Philosophy Thinking World
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Alone Difference Oneself
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Demand Man Marriage
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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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
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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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
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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Human Myself Responsibility Role
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
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
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
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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Fear Friendship Restriction

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

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