The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSENYou have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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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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Look 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.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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