The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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Before 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.
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The devil is compromise.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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