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.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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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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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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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