The strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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