I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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