What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENI believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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