Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSENThat is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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