What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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