Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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The devil is compromise.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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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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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.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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