What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENI have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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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