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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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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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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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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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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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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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