Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
HENRIK IBSENA marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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