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Henrik Ibsen quotes: How can I hold you close enough? How can I hold you close enough?
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. Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: 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. 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.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: the strongest man is he who stands most alone the strongest man is he who stands most alone
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Oh, yesyou can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its sideunfortunately; but right it has not. Oh, yes
you
can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has
might on its side
unfortunately; but right it has not.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it. A man's moral character may be completely sapped; that is the dreadful part of it.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years - seldom longer. A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years - seldom longer.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: 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." 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."
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother. Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity. He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society. The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: People so easily forget their past selves. People so easily forget their past selves.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The strong must learn to be lonely. The strong must learn to be lonely.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time. I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for. I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: To think it, wish it, even want it but do it! No, that I cannot understand. To think it, wish it, even want it
but do it! No, that I cannot understand.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: You don't get nothing for nothing in this life. You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him?
Henrik Ibsen quotes: MAIA. - all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said. MAIA. - all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with. You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world. Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men's boots in bad weather She was an extraordinary person too! Would you believe it, she cut her hair short, and used to go about in men's boots in bad weather
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone. The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style. But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake. An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave. A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived. When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home. ALLMERS. No. For it is here, in the life of earth, that we living beings are at home.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy. The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over. I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: 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. 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.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: 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. 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.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting. To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun. OSWALD: [Repeats, in a dull, toneless voice.] The sun. The sun.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town. The idol of Authority must be shattered in this town.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less. Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Really to sin you have to be serious about it. Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it! And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future. I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power? The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?
Henrik Ibsen quotes: While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior - don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies. While I think of it, Mr. Werle, junior - don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment. Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part! To "those about to marry," Ibsen therefore says in effect, "Be sure you are not in love!" And to those who are in love he says, "Part!
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for. Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will. Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I have had a delightfully lonely time of it - plenty of leisure to think and think about things. I have had a delightfully lonely time of it - plenty of leisure to think and think about things.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: That is the accursed thing about small surroundings they make the soul small. That is the accursed thing about small surroundings
they make the soul small.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so. The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again. Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The devil is compromise. The devil is compromise.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
Henrik Ibsen quotes: 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. 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.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him. About the white and shining milky way? Man may not there the milk of fortune skim, Nor is the butter of it meant for him.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs. Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love. You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The man-at-arms is the only man. The man-at-arms is the only man.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell! I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others. The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend. Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes! Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend.
Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes!
Henrik Ibsen quotes: To live is to war with trolls. To live is to war with trolls.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck. When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The younger generation will come knocking at my door. The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself. I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'
Henrik Ibsen quotes: What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self? What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen quotes: It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible. It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be. No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,O, it was so grand to be sailing! And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing!
Henrik Ibsen quotes: If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: KROGSTAD: The law cares nothing about motives.NORA: Then it must be a very foolish law. KROGSTAD: The law cares nothing about motives.

NORA: Then it must be a very foolish law.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright. Let others emulate the eagle's flight, Life in the lowly plains may be as bright.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to. Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
Henrik Ibsen quotes: You've never loved me, you've only found it pleasant to be in love with me. You've never loved me, you've only found it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives - so has it gone with us twain. SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives - so has it gone with us twain.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you. I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: 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. 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.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart. It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters. Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."
Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time. Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death. Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
Henrik Ibsen quotes: Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

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