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 IBSENCastles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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