The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSENA friend married is a friend lost.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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