Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSENWhen we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Money 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.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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