The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSENPeople who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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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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