What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENThere can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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