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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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 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 majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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