The strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSENThat is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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