In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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