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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

Henrik Ibsen

Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Desire Impossible Willing
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
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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Character Himself Modeling Rate
You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Love People Yourself
I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Majority Myself Revolution
I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Believe Equality Human Humanity Myself Value Worth
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Heart Small Soul Surround
I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Lying Old Practice Revolution Truth Yourself
Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Call Follow Glow Myself Radiance
In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Circumstance Decision Moments Victory
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Happiness Himself Life Man
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Agreement Confidence Forgiveness Marriage Myself

What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.

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