Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
[Solitude]
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
[Happiness]
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To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting!
[Goals]
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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!
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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]
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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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.
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