To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
HENRIK IBSENThere is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The devil is compromise.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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