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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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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