I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENThe worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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