I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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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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