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.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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 worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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