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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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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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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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The strongest men are the most alone.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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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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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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The devil is compromise.
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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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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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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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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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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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