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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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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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It is no use lying to one's self.
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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 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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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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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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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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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 hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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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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