Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENAnd what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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