To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENI’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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