Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENA 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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 greatest victory is defeat.
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