In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSENTo see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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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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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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