When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSENAnd what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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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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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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