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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
Henrik Ibsen -
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.
Henrik Ibsen
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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
Henrik Ibsen -
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen -
I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
Henrik Ibsen -
Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
Henrik Ibsen -
The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
Henrik Ibsen -
Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
Henrik Ibsen
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
Henrik Ibsen -
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
Henrik Ibsen -
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Henrik Ibsen -
The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen -
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
Henrik Ibsen -
Oh yes, right—right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
Henrik Ibsen -
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
Henrik Ibsen -
It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
Henrik Ibsen -
To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
Henrik Ibsen