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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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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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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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In great memories there lies the seed of growth.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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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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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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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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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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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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