I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENWriting has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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It’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.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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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 community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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