In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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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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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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