What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘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 man-at-arms is the only 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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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