Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENFriends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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A 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.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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