The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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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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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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