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Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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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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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!
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Ive 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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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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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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