I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENOh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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