The greatest victory is defeat.
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 I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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