A forest bird never wants a cage.
HENRIK IBSENNobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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