Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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