I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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