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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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 strongest men are the most alone.
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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 greatest victory is defeat.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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