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 IBSENThe devil is compromise.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That’s one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population — the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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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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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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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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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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