Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: “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.”
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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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.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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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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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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