Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
HENRIK IBSENThere is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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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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