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’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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.
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