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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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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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The devil is compromise.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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