To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENI go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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 great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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It 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.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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