It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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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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