Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
HENRIK IBSENThe worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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