This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
HENRIK IBSENI have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. 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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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