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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.

Henrik Ibsen

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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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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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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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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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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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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A friend married is a friend lost.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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To die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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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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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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