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A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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.
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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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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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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 acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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