Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
HENRIK IBSENIt is no use lying to one’s self.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life – he first individualizes.
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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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To live is – to war with trolls In the holds of the heart and mind
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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.
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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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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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