It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSENWhat is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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