Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSENI’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The devil is compromise.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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