The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSENThe majority never has right on its side.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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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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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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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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The devil is compromise.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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