It is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENDifferent 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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