What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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