Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
HENRIK IBSENEvery man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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