What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENAlmost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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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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