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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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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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...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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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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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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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