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The devil is compromise.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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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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Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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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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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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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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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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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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