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.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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