The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENWhat’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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