Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

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What you sow in your youth, you will reap in your old age.

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There can be no freedom or beauty in a domestic life based on loans and debts.

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The real trait by which you can recognize the genuine sage is patience.

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A minority may be right, but the majority is always wrong.

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How great is the vocation to open the way for hard-to-understand truths and brave new ideas.

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The woman is the most powerful being in the world, and it depends on her that the man goes where God wants him to go.

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If the door to the main entrance to the hall is open, avoid the back door.

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The only thing I appreciate about freedom is fighting for it; I am not interested in her possession.

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The human soul is made up of its deeds.

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Till a torch shall light thy way, Quench not the burning sliver, though its fire waver; as long as you have not succeeded in creating new words, do not eliminate old expressions from your speech.

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In the face of love, horror and darkness have no power.

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The one who defeats his enemy with the latter's weapon wins.

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To have all the creative motives, your life itself must be full of content.

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A thousand words will leave a smaller mark than the memory of a deed.

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Cowardice becomes cruelty at its height.

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Happy is the woman who has courage.

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The most heinous crime is breach of trust in front of a friend.

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Truth and freedom are the pillars of society.

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If you put an eagle in a cage, it will bite the bars, whether they are iron or gold.

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Please do not use the foreign word "ideal". Simply say, like us: "lie".

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You can never do too much for a loyal friend.

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A man can give his faithful friend everything he has, everything except the woman he loves.

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He who possesses the charm of songs, conquers every soul.

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Freedom consists precisely in the fulfillment of one's vocation.

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In us manifests not only what we inherited from our parents, but also all the outdated concepts, beliefs and so on. All these are not alive in us, but they are deeply rooted and we cannot get rid of them.

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Be happy with yourself.

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The majority has power, but not justice; the minority is always right.

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The strongest man in the world is the one who fights alone.

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Um, I'm a pill, a tiny dot, a drop of white mark on the petal; you are a boy, ready to play, even if you chase me, don't touch me.

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A lonely person (...) does not laugh easily.

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There are people we love the most and others we want to be with the most.

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They say: only the wearer knows where the shoe is tight.

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The child is just as much a part of the marriage as the adults.

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As soon as that sound hits my ears, the boiler immediately lights up under me.

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And a kind of pure silence floats down there. Open a way through this narrow stroke, open to the heart, my hammer!

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He who lives can only burn in battle - secrets and tricks deceive; he who spends sits on a judge's chair over himself.

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The average person becomes unhappy if we shake him out of his self-delusion.

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A cause conceived in sin can never prevail.

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A thousand words do not leave as deep a mark on a person as a single deed.

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Don't be this today, this tomorrow, and look for something else next year. Be an ore that always remains one, not scrap - dirib-drab.

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It is beautiful when a person sees a goal and reaches it, through fire and water.

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To spend is to hold a judgment seat over ourselves.

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When mourning a dead body, people usually behave very dignified.