There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
HENRIK IBSENThere is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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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 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.
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