You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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