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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

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 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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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 propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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It is no use lying to one's self.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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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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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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