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.
HENRIK IBSENNothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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?
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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