Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSENMost 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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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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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I’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!
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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