Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSENFriends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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