You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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