The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
HENRIK IBSENIn great memories there lies the seed of growth.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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