Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
HENRIK IBSENEverything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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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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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.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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