To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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