Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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