What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
HENRIK IBSENI’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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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.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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