The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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 devil is compromise.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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