In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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