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The majority never has right on its side.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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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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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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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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