What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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