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.
HENRIK IBSENOur whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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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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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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