In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
HENRIK IBSENThe younger generation will come knocking at my door.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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