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 IBSENI’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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A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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