A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSENBefore 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The devil is compromise.
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