I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
HENRIK IBSENBefore 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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