The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSENI’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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