Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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 sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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