You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENOur whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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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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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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