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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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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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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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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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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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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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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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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
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