What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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What 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.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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