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.
HENRIK IBSENA 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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