I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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 thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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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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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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