I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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