The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSENYou don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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