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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.

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'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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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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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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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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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