Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
HENRIK IBSENWhen we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Whenever 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.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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