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.
HENRIK IBSENYou have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The devil is compromise.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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