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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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The majority never has right on its side.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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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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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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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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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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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