The majority never has right on its side.
HENRIK IBSENLabor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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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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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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