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.
HENRIK IBSENIn your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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?
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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