Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENWhether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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