It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
HENRIK IBSENWhenever 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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 the holds of the heart and mind
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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