What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
HENRIK IBSENThe greatest victory is defeat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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