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Quotations by author » Henrik Ibsen
Major Norwegian playwright of the late 19th century, 1828-1906
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In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children.
Family
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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Politicians
It was love for me - her kind of love - that drove her into the mill-race.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but not faithfulness; days of joy, but not peace and happiness.
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Norway,
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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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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
LibertyQuality
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion and you rob him also of his happiness
Men
Sleep, O sleep, my dearest boy. / I will cradle you, I will guard you.
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Some day, youth will come here and thunder on my door, and force its way in to me.
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The devil is compromise
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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