Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENThe great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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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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