To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENBut a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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 strongest men are the most alone.
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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.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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