Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That’s a thought I’ll never endure! Never.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Castles in the air – they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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The devil is compromise.
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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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