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 IBSENAnd what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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