You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENYou have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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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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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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