To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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