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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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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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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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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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