The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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 majority never has right on its side.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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