What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENMany a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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