Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
HENRIK IBSENBigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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