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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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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.
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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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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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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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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately but right it has not.
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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?
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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 in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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