Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
HENRIK IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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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’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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’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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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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