I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
HENRIK IBSENNow I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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