An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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.
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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 majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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