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 IBSENCastles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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 spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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