I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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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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