Henrik Ibsen

Poet

1828-03-20

Quotes by Henrik Ibsen

• I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.

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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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• When I was at home with papa, he told me his opinion about everything, and so I had the same opinions; and if I differed from him I concealed the fact, because he would not have liked it. He called me his doll-child, and he played with me just as I used to play with my dolls.

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• NORA: No; only merry. And you were always so friendly and kind to me. But our house has been nothing but a nursery. Here I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I used to be papa's doll-child. And my children were, in their turn, my dolls. I was exceedingly delighted when you played with me, just as children were whenever I played with them. That has been our marriage, Torvald.

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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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• NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

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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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• I believe that before all else I am a reasonable human being, just as you are--or, at all events, that I must try and become one.

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

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• People so easily forget their past selves.

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• I am afraid, Torvald, I do not exactly know what religion is. ... When I am away from all this, and am alone, I will look into that matter too. I will see if what the clergyman said is true, or at all events if it is true for me.

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

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• A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.

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• To live is to war with trolls.

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

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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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• To live is to war with trolls.

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• NORA: Yes; it is just so, Torvald. While I was still at home with father, he used to tell me all his views, and so of course I held the same views; if at any time I had a different view I concealed it, because he would not have liked people with opinions of their own. He used to call me his little doll, and play with me, as I in my turn used to play with my dolls. Then I came to live in your house.

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