It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
HENRIK IBSENIn great memories there lies the seed of growth.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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It’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.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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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.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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