The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENA friend married is a friend lost.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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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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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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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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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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