Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENThe strongest men are the most alone.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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