You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSENLabor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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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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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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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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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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