I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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