Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
HENRIK IBSENTake the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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