Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENWhen we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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