Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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