I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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