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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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Henrik Johan Ibsen
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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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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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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