If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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I’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.
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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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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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