The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing. Henrik Ibsen More Quotes by Henrik Ibsen More Quotes From Henrik Ibsen 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. Henrik Ibsen deception marriage agreement Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won. Henrik Ibsen daring deeds games To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting. Henrik Ibsen uplifting goal heart A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen community-living preparation leadership I must make up my mind which is right – society or I. Henrik Ibsen mind What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself. Henrik Ibsen answers men life A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney. Henrik Ibsen machines party together The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society. Henrik Ibsen freedom society truth 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. Henrik Ibsen black heart men Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul. Henrik Ibsen wrinkles writing character Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing Henrik Ibsen public-opinion opinion It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life Henrik Ibsen rebellion this-life spirit 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. Henrik Ibsen fighting believe thinking I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right. Henrik Ibsen majority age lying 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. Henrik Ibsen effects mood sea What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self? Henrik Ibsen differences self Really to sin you have to be serious about it. Henrik Ibsen sin serious literature The starving poet business is no good nowadays. Henrik Ibsen starving poet One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it. Henrik Ibsen expanding-universe struggle men 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. Henrik Ibsen spontaneous liberation world
