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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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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.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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