Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
HENRIK IBSENIn great memories there lies the seed of growth.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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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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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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