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The greatest victory is defeat.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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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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And what if I did run my ship aground oh, still it was splendid to sail it!
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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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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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