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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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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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The greatest victory is defeat.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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The sea possesses a power over one's moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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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 friend married is a friend lost.
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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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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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