The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENEvery man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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