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.
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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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