Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
HENRIK IBSENThere 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.
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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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 see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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