It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
HENRIK IBSENI go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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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 majority never has right on its side.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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