Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
HENRIK IBSENWhat 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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