A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
HENRIK IBSENI have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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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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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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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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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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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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