Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
HENRIK IBSENIt is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The devil is compromise.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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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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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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