It is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENMany a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The devil is compromise.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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