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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.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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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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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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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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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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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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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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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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