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 IBSENWhat’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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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Oh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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