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Henrik Ibsen Quotes


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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
[Solitude]

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.

There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
[Happiness]

To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!
[Goals]

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

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

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness.
[Youth]

You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

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.


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