The devil is compromise.
HENRIK IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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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