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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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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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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides they are not keeping anything back there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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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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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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The devil is compromise.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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