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.
HENRIK IBSENIn 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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