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Only the spirit of rebellion craves for happiness in this life. What right have we human beings to happiness?

Henrik Ibsen

What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that ‘walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country, as thick as the sands of the sea.

Henrik Ibsen

One should never put on one's best trousers to go out in to fight for freedom.

Henrik Ibsen

Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintance, but not friends; servants, but not loyalty; days of joy, but not peace or happiness.

Henrik Ibsen

What we have inherited from our fathers and mothers is not all that 'walks in us.' There are all sorts of dead ideas and lifeless old beliefs. They have no tangibility, but they haunt us all the same and we can not get rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. Ghosts must be all over the country. as thick as the sands of the sea.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.

Henrik Ibsen

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? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority.

Henrik Ibsen

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.

Henrik Ibsen

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.

Henrik Ibsen

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Henrik Ibsen

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