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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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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
Henrik Ibsen
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I believe that, before all else, I'm a human being, no less than you.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
Henrik Ibsen
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Ive 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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen -
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
Henrik Ibsen
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting.
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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.
Henrik Ibsen