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It is no use lying to one's self.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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 devil is compromise.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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