I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENThe 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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