I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENOh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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 spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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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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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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