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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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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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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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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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...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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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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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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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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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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What's a man's first duty? The answer is brief: To be himself.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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It is no use lying to one's self.
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