Henrik Ibsen Quotes - Page 4

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• 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

  Sea, Mood, Effects

  Henrik Ibsen (1912). “- Hedda Gabler. The Master Builder. From Ibsen's Workshop. v.2- Brand. Peer Gynt. v.3- Emperor & Galilean. A Doll's House. Ghosts. v.4- Little Eyolf. John Gabriel Borkman. When We Dead Awaken. The Wild Duck. v.5- Lady Inger of Ostrat. The feast of Solhoug. Love's Comedy. The Vikings at Helgeland. The Pretenders. v.6- The League of Youth. Pillars of Society. Rosenersholm. The Lady from the Sea”

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• To live is - to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind

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  War, Heart, Mind

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• One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Struggle, Men, Expanding Universe

  Letter to Georg Brandes, February 17, 1871.

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• It's a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.

  Henrik Ibsen

  World, Spontaneous, Liberation

  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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• I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.

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  Sacred, Duty

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Nora Helmer, Act III, 1879.

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• Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

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  Life, Beautiful, Home

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

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  Lying, Men, Average

  'Vildanden' (The Wild Duck, 1884) act 5

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• It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.

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  Hero, Finance, Beads

  "The League of Youth and Pillars of Society".

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• There is nothing so enervating and exhausting as this hopeless waiting. I dare say this is only a transition period. I will and shall have a victory some day. If the powers that be have shown me so little favor as to place me in this world and make me what I am, the result must be accordingly.

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  Waiting, Victory, Transition

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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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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• It is no use lying to one's self.

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  Lying, Self, Use

  Henrik Ibsen (2015). “A Doll's House: Illustrated”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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• I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

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  Lying, Elderly, Gentleman

  Henrik Ibsen (1960). “The Oxford Ibsen: An enemy of the people. The wild duck. Rosmersholm”

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• If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

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  Lying, Writing, Humbug

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

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• 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, Sitting, Paper

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• A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

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  Deeds, Mark, Thousand

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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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  Your Side, Sides, Use

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “An Enemy of the People”, p.46, Henrik Ibsen

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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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• It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.

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  Believe, Fighting, Thinking

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.

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  Life, Courage, Believe

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• Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

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  Men, Punishment, Done

  "A Doll's House". Play by Henrik Ibsen, Torvald Helmer, Act I, 1879.

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• Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!

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  Pounds, Moaning

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• The majority never has right on its side.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Majority, Sides

  An Enemy of the People act 4 (1882)

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• The old terms must be invented with new meaning and given new explanations. Liberty, equality, and fraternity are no longer what they were in the days of the late-lamented guillotine. This is what the politicians will not understand; and that is why I hate them. They want only their own special revolutions- external revolutions, political revolutions, etc. But that is only dabbling. What is really needed is a revolution of the human spirit.

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  Hate, Political Revolution, Liberty

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• So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.

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  Life, Tasks, Realizing

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• 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.

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  Yes You Can, Majority, Answers

  Henrik Ibsen (2012). “An Enemy of the People”, p.59, Courier Corporation

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