Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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