Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
HENRIK IBSENBefore 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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To live is to war with trolls.
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