The strong must learn to be lonely.
HENRIK IBSENHappiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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 sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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