An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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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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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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