Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENThe man-at-arms is the only man.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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 have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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