More from Henrik Ibsen
The majority never has right on its side.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen The devil is compromise.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen 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.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.
Tina FeyTina Fey Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn’t matter.
P. J. O'RourkeP. J. O'Rourke I realized that liberals were actually the racists. Liberals were actually the trolls.
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