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Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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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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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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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 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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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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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