Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
HENRIK IBSENThe starving poet business is no good nowadays.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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