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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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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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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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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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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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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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The majority never has right on its side.
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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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