The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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 heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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