Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority never has right on its side.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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