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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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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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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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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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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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 starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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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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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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