Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The devil is compromise.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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’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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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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