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 IBSENOh, life would be all right if we didn’t have to put up with these damned creditors who keep pestering us with the demands of their ideals.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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To see one’s goal and to drive toward it, steeling one’s heart, is most uplifting.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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