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Henrik Ibsen Quotes and Quotations
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. 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. This is life! It can harden and it can exalt! What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. To seek one's goals and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting! Different people have different duties assigned to 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. Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights. And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it! A minority may be right; a majority is always wrong. Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to. The strongest man is the one who stands most alone. Yes, you may depend upon it he has the ability! He is the younger generation that stands ready to knock at my door - to make an end of Halvard Solness. |