Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENThe man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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