To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
HENRIK IBSENThere is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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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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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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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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