If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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