A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENTo live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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