Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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