I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
HENRIK IBSENA friend married is a friend lost.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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