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.
HENRIK IBSENThe costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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