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.
HENRIK IBSENMarriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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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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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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