The strongest men are the most alone.
HENRIK IBSENOh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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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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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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