The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
HENRIK IBSENHelmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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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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