And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
HENRIK IBSENThe 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.
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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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