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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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