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 IBSENA forest bird never wants a cage.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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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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Look into any man’s heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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I’m no longer prepared to accept what people say and what’s written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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A thousand words can’t make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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