Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSENOur whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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