Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
HENRIK IBSENSo 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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