You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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 strongest men are the most alone.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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