It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
HENRIK IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The devil is compromise.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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