NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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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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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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