Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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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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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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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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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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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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