The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSENI must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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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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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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