Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
HENRIK IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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