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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSEN

Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
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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Known Myself Stand World
In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Greatness Growth Memories
The greatest victory is defeat.
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Defeat Greatness One Liner Victory
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Business Goodness Poet Starve
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Act Courage Known Possible Release
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Awakening Dead Live
Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Friendship Lying Oneself
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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Act Beautiful Courage Known Liberty
The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSEN

Distance Man

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

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