The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENIt is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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 I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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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.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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