The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENThe greatest victory is defeat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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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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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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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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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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