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.
HENRIK IBSENA woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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