The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSENYou see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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