A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
HENRIK IBSENYou see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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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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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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