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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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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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...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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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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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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