It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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I’m plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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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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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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It’s such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string – when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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