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.
HENRIK IBSENWhat is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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