Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSENA marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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