Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENSo to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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