I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
HENRIK IBSENMost critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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