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.
HENRIK IBSENI’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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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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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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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