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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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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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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 friend married is a friend lost.
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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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