I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSENOh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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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.”
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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