The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSENIf 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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