The devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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