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 IBSENThere 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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