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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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