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 IBSENIt was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I’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.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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