When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSENIt was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Different people have different duties assigned 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.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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