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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 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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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