The greatest victory is defeat.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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