Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENThe spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The devil is compromise.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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