Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
Henrik IbsenRead
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Writing serves as a cleansing and liberating experience for the author.
In this quote, Henrik Ibsen expresses how the act of writing rejuvenates his spirit, akin to the refreshing feeling one gets after a bath. It suggests that writing not only provides a creative outlet but also promotes a sense of well-being and personal freedom.
Themes
WritingFreedomCreativityHealthExpression
In practice
Example use cases
In a workshop on creativity, one might quote Ibsen to encourage participants to embrace writing as a therapeutic practice.
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
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Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your emancipation. You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields - discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West - superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.
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