The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSENMoney 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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The 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.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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