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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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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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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's 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 can't get rid of them.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Henrik Ibsen
Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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