Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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 always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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