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A forest bird never wants a cage.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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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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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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