There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
HENRIK IBSENLook into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
HENRIK IBSENAn unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENThe great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
HENRIK IBSENIn great memories there lies the seed of growth.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
HENRIK IBSENOh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENDon’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
HENRIK IBSENThe man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
HENRIK IBSENBefore 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.
HENRIK IBSENWhat ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
HENRIK IBSENNothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENOh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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