A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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