Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I'm not sure my achievements have been 'great.'
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When I've been asked what should be on my gravestone, I've said: 'Here lies Gandalf. He came out.' Two big achievements.
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Certainly, I've never wanted to live on past achievements.
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
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I want to be known for my athletic achievements, not my celebrity.
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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.
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The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others.
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My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way.
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Our focus should be on making the most of our own lives, regardless of whether we start at the bottom or the top- not on envying the advantages and achievements of others.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.
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But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress.
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Life is not a continuous process, there's some sort of finite number of achievements that defines your life.
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We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don't see our own time for what it truly is - a new dawn for America.
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Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.
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By virtue of love is the lover transformed in the beloved and the beloved transformed in the lover.
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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
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The discipline of singing early music has a special sound - (it's) very clear.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
