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.”
HENRIK IBSENWriting has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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The majority never has right on its side.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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 propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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