The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
HENRIK IBSENReally to sin you have to be serious about it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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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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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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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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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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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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