The man-at-arms is the only man.
HENRIK IBSENI’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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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.
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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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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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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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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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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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Helmer: “Before all else you are a wife and a mother.” Nora: “That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.”
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man.
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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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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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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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