The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSENThe devil is compromise.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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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 die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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