You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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So 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.
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