The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSENThe strong must learn to be lonely.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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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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The devil is compromise.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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