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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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 thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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