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.
HENRIK IBSEN
Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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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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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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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 forest bird never wants a cage.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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