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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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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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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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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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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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 no use lying to one's self.
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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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