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 IBSENIt 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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