A 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.
HENRIK IBSENEach bird must sing with his own throat.
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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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