Henrik Ibsen Short Quotes

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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

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I have another duty equally sacred... My duty to myself.

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I have other duties equally sacred … Duties to myself.

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When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived.

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Nora.'Look here, Doctor Rank - you know you want to live.

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What ought a man to be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.

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What's a man's first duty? The answer's brief: to be himself.

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The State has its root in time, and will ripe and rot in time.

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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

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Losing all was winning's cost! Eternally owned is but what's lost!

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To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.

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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

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Back he'll come... With vine leaves in his hair. Flushed and confident.

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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

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An unromantic poem I mean to make
Of one who only lives for duty's sake.

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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.

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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

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Forget that foreign word "ideals." We have that good old native word: "lies."

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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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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.

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To think it, wish it, even want it —
but do it! No, that I cannot understand.

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The black, cold, icy water. Down and down, without end — if it would only end.

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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.

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Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions — to destroy.

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