The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENAnd what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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