You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
HENRIK IBSENThere are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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