It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSENThat is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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