It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I’m to get to know myself and the world outside. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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