Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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A friend married is a friend lost.