Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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