To live is to war with trolls.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Before 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.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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