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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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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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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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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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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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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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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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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 man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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A woman cannot be herself in the society of the present day, which is an exclusively masculine society, with laws framed by men and with a judicial system that judges feminine conduct from a masculine point of view.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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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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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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