Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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