A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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