Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
HENRIK IBSENMost 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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