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Henrik Ibsen

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


— Henrik Ibsen


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


— Henrik Ibsen


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


— Henrik Ibsen


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


— Henrik Ibsen


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What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!


— Henrik Ibsen


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


— Henrik Ibsen


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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.


— Henrik Ibsen


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A forest bird never wants a cage.


— Henrik Ibsen


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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.


— Henrik Ibsen


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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.


— Henrik Ibsen


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About Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen Quotes




Did you know about Henrik Ibsen?

He married Suzannah Thoresen on 18 June 1858 and Henrik Ibsen gave birth to their only child Sigurd on 23 December 1859. She sacrificed herself time and again. Ibsen moved to Munich in 1875 and began work on his first contemporary realist drama The Pillars of Society first publiHenrik Ibsend and performed in 1877.

Several of his plays were considered scandalous to many of his era when European theatre was required to model strict morals of family life and propriety. His major works include Brand Peer Gynt An Enemy of the People Emperor and Galilean A Doll's House Hedda Gabler Ghosts The Wild Duck Rosmersholm and The Master Builder. The poetic and cinematic play Peer Gynt however has strong surreal elements.

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