Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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