Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSENNobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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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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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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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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