Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
HENRIK IBSENLabor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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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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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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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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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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There 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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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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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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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.
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