An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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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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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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