The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
HENRIK IBSENThere can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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