Henrik Ibsen Quotes - Page 3

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• To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Uplifting, Heart, Goal

  Henrik Ibsen (1983*). “Seven plays”

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• And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

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  Running, What If, Ships

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• This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!

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  Happiness

  Henrik Ibsen (1995). “Hedda Gabler and Other Plays”, Bantam Classics

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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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  Spirit, Rebellion, This Life

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2074, Delphi Classics

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• Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.

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  Happiness, Two, Trouble

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• What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

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  Self, Differences

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• 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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  Writing, Character, Wrinkles

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “Four major plays”, Signet Classics

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• Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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  Literature, Serious, Sin

  "Peer Gynt". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Button-Moulder, Act V, Scene VII, 1867.

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• The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.

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  Power, Secret, Accomplish

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• When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

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  Life

  "When We Dead Awaken". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Ulfhejm, in Act II, 1899.

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• Each bird must sing with his own throat.

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  Voice, Bird, Singing

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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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  Men, Average, Illusion

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “The Wild Duck”, p.85, Jester House Publishing

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• You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.

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  People, One Love

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• Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing

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  Public Opinion, Opinion

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2229, Delphi Classics

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• The State is the curse of the individual... The State must go! That will be a revolution which will find me on its side. Undermine the idea of the State, set up in its place spontaneous action, and the idea that spiritual relationship is the only thing that makes for unity, and you will start the elements of a liberty which will be something worth possessing.

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  Spiritual, Ideas, Unity

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.14, Рипол Классик

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• Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

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  Air, Castles, Easy

  The Master Builder act 3 (1892)

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• The devil is compromise.

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  Devil, Literature, Compromise

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.1002, Delphi Classics

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• Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

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  Poetry, Soul, Judgment

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• The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

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  Poet, Starving

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “Letters of Henrik Ibsen”

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• I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

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  Lying, Age, Majority

  HENRIK IBSEN; SIDNEY KINGSLEY; SIDNEY HOWARD (1961). “AND ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE; MEN IN WHITE; YELLOW JACK”

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• One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.

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  Inspirational, Success, Truth

  "Enemy of the People". Play by Henrik Ibsen, 1883.

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• To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

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  World, Spirit, Revolt

  Henrik Ibsen (2012). “Ghosts”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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• Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

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  Thinking, Order, Law

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “Ghosts”, p.47, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.

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  Believe, I Believe, Humans

  Henrik Ibsen (2006). “Four Major Plays”, p.83, Penguin

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• There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.

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  Children, Lying, Home

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.19, Henrik Ibsen

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