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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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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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The devil is compromise.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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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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