Quotation by

Henrik Ibsen

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

Henrik Ibsen

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The quotation suggests that although your home and life appear perfect and impressive, they are actually unstable and fragile underneath. It warns that everything could suddenly collapse or fall apart because the foundation is weak and uncertain.

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