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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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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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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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