I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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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 is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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