Henrik Ibsen Quotes - Page 6

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• I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, League

  Henrik Ibsen (1912). “The Works of Henrik Ibsen”

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• I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!

  Henrik Ibsen

  Farewell, Possibility, Scales

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

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• Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Thinking, Creating, Essentials

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

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• But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Style, Littles

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.12, Henrik Ibsen

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• It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Release, Acts Of Courage, Spite

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• Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mean, Destiny, Turns

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1966). “The Oxford Ibsen: The lady from the sea. Hedda Gabler. The master builder”

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• The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Young Generation, Doors, Generations

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “The Master Builder”, p.46, Henrik Ibsen

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• The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Blow, Tasks, Institutions

  "The Drama of Ibsen and Strindberg". Book by Frank Laurence Lucas (p. 34), 1962.

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• An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty's sake.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mean, Sake, Duty

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.646, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.

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  Believe, Book, Thinking

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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.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Power, Demand, Endure

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1966). “The Oxford Ibsen: The lady from the sea. Hedda Gabler. The master builder”

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• Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

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  Commitment, Steel, Radiance

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• Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.... We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Country, Light, Sea

  Henrik Ibsen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

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• HELMER; But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Children, Husband, Mean

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• 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

  Tools, Literature, Pillars

  Henrik Ibsen (1961). “The Oxford Ibsen: Pillars of society. A doll's house. Ghosts”

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• What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Sick, Sound, Cold

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Dr. Rank, Act I, 1879.

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• Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Needs

  Hedda Gabler Act IV

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