The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
The devil is compromise.
When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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.
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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.
I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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?
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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