What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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