To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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