The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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