What’s a man’s first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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The devil is compromise.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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