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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The devil is compromise.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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