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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall. — Henrik Ibsen

To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution. — Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself. — Henrik Ibsen

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. — Henrik Ibsen

the strongest man is he who stands most alone — Henrik Ibsen

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. — Henrik Ibsen

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." — Henrik Ibsen

What good would that ever do me if you were gone from this world, as you say? Not the slightest. — Henrik Ibsen

Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother. — Henrik Ibsen

He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity. — Henrik Ibsen

People so easily forget their past selves. — Henrik Ibsen

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

One's life is a heavy price to pay for being born. — Henrik Ibsen

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

It is no use lying to one's self. — Henrik Ibsen

You possibly believe I keep the glue Of lies for Happiness's in a broken jar? — Henrik Ibsen

The strong must learn to be lonely. — Henrik Ibsen

I thought you understood where I'd lost what you call my heart at the time. — Henrik Ibsen

Each bird must sing with his own throat. — Henrik Ibsen

Ibsen: "Education is the capacity to confront the situations posed by life. — Jon Lee Anderson

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. — Henrik Ibsen

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

To think it, wish it, even want it
but do it! No, that I cannot understand. — Henrik Ibsen

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. — Henrik Ibsen

Most people are ennobled by the actual presence of death. But how long do you suppose this nobility will last in him? — Henrik Ibsen

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

MAIA. - all the glory of the world? Yes, you did. And all that glory should be mine, you said. — Henrik Ibsen

Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won. — Henrik Ibsen

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

Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves. — Henrik Ibsen

It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life — Henrik Ibsen

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 — Henrik Ibsen

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical. — Henrik Ibsen

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

Oh yes, right - right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might? — Henrik Ibsen

World-comedy of Love's contriving - naive fools of fancy, passionately weaving the cords that are to strangle passion. — Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed. — Henrik Ibsen

Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. — Henrik Ibsen

The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy. — Henrik Ibsen

Think. I dragged myself along among the precipices - and revelled in the peace and luxury of death. — Henrik Ibsen

Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time. — Henrik Ibsen

Werle: "I believe there is no one in the world you detest as you do me."
Gregers: "I have seen you at too close quarters. — Henrik Ibsen

No, I don't think one ought to be at everybody's beck and call. Anyway, I'm not going to be. — Henrik Ibsen

There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk. — Henrik Ibsen

I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority — Henrik Ibsen

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing. — Henrik Ibsen

It is the small losses in life that cut one to the heart. — Henrik Ibsen

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. — Henrik Ibsen

A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ... — Henrik Ibsen

SIGURD. Man's will can do this and that; but fate rules in the deeds that shape our lives - so has it gone with us twain. — Henrik Ibsen

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground. — Henrik Ibsen

These heroes of finance are like beads on a string; when one slips off, all the rest follow. — Henrik Ibsen

Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing — Henrik Ibsen

I'll risk everything together with you. — Henrik Ibsen

Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends. — Henrik Ibsen

The devil is compromise. — Henrik Ibsen

And though I have sailed my boat hard aground,
O, it was so grand to be sailing! — Henrik Ibsen

Gina. I wish to goodness that detestable thing had never set his foot inside our doors! — Henrik Ibsen

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

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. — Henrik Ibsen

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth. — Henrik Ibsen

You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen. — Mandy Patinkin

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

I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.' — Autumn Reeser

KROGSTAD: The law cares nothing about motives.

NORA: Then it must be a very foolish law. — Henrik Ibsen

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. — Henrik Ibsen

I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself. — Henrik Ibsen

I can do Shakespeare, Ibsen, English accents, Irish accents, no accent, stand on my head, tap dance, sing, look 17 or look 70. — Diane Ladd

Men are funny characters, they must always have something to bemuse them. — Henrik Ibsen

A forest bird never wants a cage. — Henrik Ibsen

[From below comes the noise of a door slamming.] — Henrik Ibsen

The man-at-arms is the only man. — Henrik Ibsen

Do not use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.' — Henrik Ibsen

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

You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me. — Henrik Ibsen

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics. — Harvey Korman

I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell! — Henrik Ibsen

Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs. — Henrik Ibsen

The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others. — Henrik Ibsen

Dr. Stockmann: Yes, I can afford it now. Katherine tells me I earn almost as much as we spend.
Peter Stockmann: Almost - yes! — Henrik Ibsen

To live is to war with trolls. — Henrik Ibsen

When I lost you, it was as if all the solid ground dissolved from under my feet. Look at me; I'm a half-drowned man now, hanging onto a wreck. — Henrik Ibsen

Cage an eagle and it will bite at the wires, be they of
iron or of gold. — Henrik Ibsen

The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes. — Henrik Ibsen

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

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

The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right. — Henrik Ibsen

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

You have made an empty place within me; and I must try to fill it up with something - with something that is a little like love. — Henrik Ibsen

This is life! It can harden and it can exalt! — Henrik Ibsen

You see, the fact is that the strongest man upon earth is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen

The younger generation will come knocking at my door. — Henrik Ibsen

It's a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible. — Henrik Ibsen

Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything. — Henrik Ibsen

The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. — Henrik Ibsen

The starving poet business is no good nowadays. — Henrik Ibsen

The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom - these are the pillars of society. — Henrik Ibsen

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. — Henrik Ibsen

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III. — Ving Rhames