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 IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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