Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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