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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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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 Ibsen
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen -
It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life.
Henrik Ibsen -
It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
Henrik Ibsen -
Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Henrik Ibsen -
I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
Henrik Ibsen -
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.
Henrik Ibsen
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There is something so indescribably sweet and satisfying in the knowledge that a husband or wife has forgiven the other freely, and from the heart.
Henrik Ibsen -
The majority never has right on its side.
Henrik Ibsen -
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
Henrik Ibsen -
One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom.
Henrik Ibsen -
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Henrik Ibsen -
A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
Henrik Ibsen
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
Henrik Ibsen -
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!
Henrik Ibsen -
Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.
Henrik Ibsen -
I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can; for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority.
Henrik Ibsen -
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen -
The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
Henrik Ibsen