To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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