Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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 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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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