Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
HENRIK IBSENI don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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