The greatest victory is defeat.
HENRIK IBSENI’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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