Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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