A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENWhen you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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