A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
HENRIK IBSENThe great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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It’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.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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