You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
HENRIK IBSENI have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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