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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.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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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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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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