Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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