Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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