The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
HENRIK IBSENThe starving poet business is no good nowadays.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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