I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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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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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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