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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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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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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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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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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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