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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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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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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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