Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENThere is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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