The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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The devil is compromise.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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