Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENIt 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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