I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENThe greatest victory is defeat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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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 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 against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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