To live is to war with trolls.
HENRIK IBSENTo see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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 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 spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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