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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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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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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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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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