And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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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.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The devil is compromise.
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