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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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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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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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