So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
HENRIK IBSENNORA: 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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