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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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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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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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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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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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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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