The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENIt is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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