Whenever 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.
HENRIK IBSENThe great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
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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 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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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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