It is no use lying to one’s self.
HENRIK IBSENAlmost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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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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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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The devil is compromise.
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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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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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