Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
HENRIK IBSENWhenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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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 see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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