The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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Helmer: “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.”
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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’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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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