Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENYou see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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The devil is compromise.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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