When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
HENRIK IBSENIn 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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To live is to war with trolls.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The devil is compromise.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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