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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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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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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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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
Henrik Ibsen
If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man 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.
Henrik Ibsen
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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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
Henrik Ibsen
To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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