What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSENI don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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