It is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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