Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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 party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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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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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your 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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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