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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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The devil is compromise.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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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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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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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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