It is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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