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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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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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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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