Henrik Ibsen
"Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to."
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"One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth."
Henrik Ibsen
"To seek one's goals and to drive toward it steeling one's heart is most uplifting!"
Henrik Ibsen
"Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights."
Henrik Ibsen
"It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life"
Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts
"Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. 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 sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light."
Henrik Ibsen
"One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, "I have it," merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it."
Henrik Ibsen
"What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?"
Henrik Ibsen
"I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over."
Henrik Ibsen
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