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.
HENRIK IBSENThe younger generation will come knocking at my door.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr; he must first Will his own execution.
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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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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 strongest men are the most alone.
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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People who don’t know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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I believe that, before all else, I’m a human being, no less than you.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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