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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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Henrik Johan Ibsen
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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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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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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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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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