I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENOh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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