You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENEverything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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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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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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