Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

Henrik Ibsen

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• One time, I pranked my sister: I put red solo cups in her room on her floor and filled them with water. Then I put string all over so you couldn't get anywhere.

  

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• A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

  

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• The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.

  

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• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  

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• I did the Kannada film when just out of school. I didn't know anything about the South Indian film industry at that time, and I did the film to earn some pocket money. I realised then I like acting.

  

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• I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'

  

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• If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different guiding stars, for instance at the tastes and foibles of our contemporaries, at the established religion, but in particular at the hints and suggestions of those at the head of affairs, then how shall we ever reach the high, precipitous, bare rock whereon stands the temple of truth?

  

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• Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.

  

  Henrik Ibsen
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • State