The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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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’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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 go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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