Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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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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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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