Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Helmer: 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.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The devil is compromise.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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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 is no use lying to one’s self.
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