Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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They can forbid me from following my path, they can try to force my will. But they cannot prevent me from, deep in my soul, choosing one or the other.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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What is the first duty of man? The answer is very brief: to be oneself.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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Our society is masculine, and until women enter it, they will not be considered human.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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How strange happiness is! No one knows from where or how or when it arrives, and it comes through invisible paths, sometimes when it is no longer expected.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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A thousand words are not engraved as deeply as a single deed.

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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

Henrik Johan Ibsen

Henrik Johan Ibsen

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To seek the self in the power of gold is to build upon sand.

Hermann Keyserling

Hermann Keyserling

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Life is a constant process, a continuous transformation over time, a birth, death, and rebirth.

Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

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Between faith and disbelief, a breath. Between certainty and doubt, a breath. Between certainty and doubt, a breath. Rejoice in this present breath where you live, for life itself is in the passing breath.

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

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The door to happiness opens inwards, one must step back a little to open it: if one pushes it, it closes even more.

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

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How ironic it is that precisely through language a man can degrade himself below what has no language!

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

Sören Aabye Kierkegaard

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Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.