A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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