What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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 forest bird never wants a cage.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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 the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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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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