I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
HENRIK IBSENNORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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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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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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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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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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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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