Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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