There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
HENRIK IBSENIt’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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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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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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