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.
HENRIK IBSENNothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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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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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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