It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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