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One Quotes by Henrik Ibsen
- The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of these social lies against which an independent, intelligent men must…
- It is no use lying to one's self.
- 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…
- Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle…
- To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
- 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.…
- The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
- A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
- Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep…
- One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands…
- These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
- What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
- 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…
- Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor…
- There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and…
- I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to…
- You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
- Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that…
- One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
- Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
- Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each…
- One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
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