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.
HENRIK IBSENTo crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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