You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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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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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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