The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSENIf 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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