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.
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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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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