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A friend married is a friend lost.

Henrik Ibsen

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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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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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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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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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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 go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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