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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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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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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 will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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 die in agony upon a cross Does not create a martyr he must first Will his own execution.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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