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