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.
HENRIK IBSENHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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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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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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