Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENA friend married is a friend lost.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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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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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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