There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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