Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENI’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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 of his soul.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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