There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 greatest victory is defeat.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The devil is compromise.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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I’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!
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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