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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.
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 brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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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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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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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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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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