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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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