Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
HENRIK IBSENAnd what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The devil is compromise.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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