Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
HENRIK IBSEN
Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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