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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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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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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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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.
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