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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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 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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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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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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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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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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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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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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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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