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 IBSENIt’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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