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 community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man’s law, as though she were not a woman but a man.
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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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Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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