It’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.
HENRIK IBSENWriting has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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