But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
HENRIK IBSENI believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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