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.
HENRIK IBSENYou don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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