What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
HENRIK IBSENThere is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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 believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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