A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENIt is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a 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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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