I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
HENRIK IBSENEverything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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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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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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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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