Henrik Ibsen Quotes

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Heart Judgement Live Oneself Sit Troll War Writing
Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Alone Happiness Oneself Trouble
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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Adventure Alive Risk Yourself
The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Learning Lonely Strong
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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Conscience Different Kind Law Man Practice Spirituality Woman
Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Bad Early Family Hard Time Mom
Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage Mindset Yourself
The majority never has right on its side.
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Majority Right Side
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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Equality Myself Sacred
I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Achievement Man Transformation Willing
To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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Goals Heart Oneself See Uplift
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Brief Himself Man Responsibility
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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Action Dare Game Happiness Winning
The devil is compromise.
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Compromise Devil One Liner
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Community Myself Preparation
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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Endurance Power Subject Thinking Thought Yourself
Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Human Myself Responsibility Role
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Character Mindset Myself Soul Wrinkle Writing
You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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Happiness Love Pleasant Yourself
Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Himself Man Punishment Save Wrong
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Calm Certain Happiness Innocent
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Build Castle Easy
To live is to war with trolls.
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Live Troll War

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