Each bird must sing with his own throat.
HENRIK IBSENI’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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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