What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
HENRIK IBSENEvery man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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A 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.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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 devil is compromise.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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.
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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