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.
HENRIK IBSENThe worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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