Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSENThis is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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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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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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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