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.
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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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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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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