Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
HENRIK IBSENIf you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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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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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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