I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
HENRIK IBSENIf only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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 great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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