Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The devil is compromise.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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