That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
HENRIK IBSENIt’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The devil is compromise.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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