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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.

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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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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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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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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