To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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