What did Henrik Ibsen mean by: Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness. Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway Copy
…every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Guilt, Responsibility, Society, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Confinement, Growth, Limitation, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Law, Misery, Order, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Authenticity, Individuality, Self-identity, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Experience, Life, Writing, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Escape, Illusion, Imagination, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Freedom, Majority, Truth, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, Henrik Ibsen, Certainty, Happiness, Innocence, 0 Henrik Ibsen Playwright · Norway
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies Jeanette Winterson Author · England