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Inspirational Quotes by Henrik Ibsen
- Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
- Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
- Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
- Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.
- It is no use lying to one's self.
- There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
- Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
- To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
- The devil is compromise.
- Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
- What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is 'himself'.
- Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man
- I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
- The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
- If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
- 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.
- Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
- A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
- The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
- To live is to war with trolls.
- What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
- You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
- But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
- Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
- 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…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento