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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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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 have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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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's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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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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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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