And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The devil is compromise.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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