The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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