QUOTES by Henrik Ibsen
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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.
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And though I have sailed my boat hard aground, O, it was so grand to be sailing!
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The right? Ah, what does it help to be in the right if you don't have any power?
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The White God is coming northward; him will I not meet; the old gods are strong no longer;—they sleep, they sit half shadow- high;—with them will we strive!
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Not in that sense. What I need is the companionship of another person who can, as it were, complete me—supply what is wanting in me—be one with me in all my striving. MAIA.
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You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness's in a broken jar?
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But he got right to the top. And I heard harps in the air. My - my master builder!
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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!
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No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be.
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You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone.
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What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest.
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To think it, wish it, even want it — but do it! No, that I cannot understand.
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First condition of a happy marriage is the absence of love, and the first condition of an enduring love is the absence of marriage.
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Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend. Peter Stockmann: Almost—yes!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Torvald: I would gladly work night and day for you, Nora--bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrifice his honour for the one he loves. Nora: But hundreds of thousands of women have done!
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However wretched I may feel, I want to prolong the agony as long as possible. All my patients are like that. And so are those who are morally diseased..
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People want only special revolutions, in externals, in politics, and so on. But that's just tinkering. What is really is called for is a revolution of the human mind.
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You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am really not quite sure which - I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other.
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A normally constituted truth lives, let us say, as a rule seventeen or eighteen, or at most twenty years—seldom longer.
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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth, Author
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Nora: Torvald, don't look at me like that! Torvald: Can't I look at my richest treasure? At all that beauty that's mine, mine alone-completely and utterly.
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A talent for building children's souls, Hilde. So building their souls that they might grow straight and fine, nobly and beautifully formed, to their full human stature. That was where Aline's talent lay.
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Anyone who's sold herself for somebody else once isn't going to do it again.
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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
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Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.
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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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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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I'm also like a half-drowned woman on a wreck. No one to suffer with; no one to care for.
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