To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
HENRIK IBSENHome life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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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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