Henrik Ibsen on small
Henrik Ibsen129 quotes“That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.”
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen It is no use lying to one’s self.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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it is no small comfort to me to know that God has called me to my work, putting me where I am and as I am. I have not sought the position, and I dare not leave it. He knows why He places me here-whether to do, or learn, or suffer.
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Yuri GagarinYuri Gagarin No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.
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