To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
HENRIK IBSENIt was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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