When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSENPoetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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