Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
HENRIK IBSENTo crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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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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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The devil is compromise.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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