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.
HENRIK IBSENTo see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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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’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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