Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
HENRIK IBSENOh, 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The devil is compromise.
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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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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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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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