Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENPeople who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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