A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSENA friend married is a friend lost.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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