It is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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