To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Det er just den rette oprorsand at kraeve lykken her I livet. Hvad ret har vi mennesker til lykken?

Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts

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Topic

Seeking happiness Happiness

Speaker

Pastor Manders

Author

Henrik Ibsen

Source

Ghosts

Medium

Play

Language

Norwegian

Time

1881 1880s 19th century

Occupation

Playwright Writer

From

Norway Europe

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Original Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. Gengangere [Ghosts]. Kobenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1881, act 1.

Current Citation

Ibsen, Henrik. "Ghosts." A Doll's House and Other Plays, translated by Deborah Dawkin and Erik Skuggevik. Penguin Classics, 2016, act 1.

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The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Topic
Evolution of law Nature of law Law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Language
English
Time
1880 1880s 19th century
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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.

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He was unheeded, happy and near to the wild heart of life.

James Joyce

The Egoist

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Topic
Happiness Contentment Being carefree

Author

James Joyce
Source
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man The Egoist
Medium
Novel Magazine
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
English
Time
1915 1910s 20th century
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Original Citation

Joyce, James. "A Portrait of the Artists as a Young Man." The Egoist. 2 Feb. 1914 - 1 Sept. 1915. Serial.

Current Citation

Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, edited by John Paul Riquelme. W. W. Norton & Company, 2007, ch. 4.