The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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The devil is compromise.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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