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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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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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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The devil is compromise.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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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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Different people have different duties assigned them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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To live is to war with trolls.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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