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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
Henrik Ibsen
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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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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.
Henrik Ibsen
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
Henrik Ibsen
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
Henrik Ibsen
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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.
Henrik Ibsen