To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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