Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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