I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much …

Henrik Ibsen
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I believe that before anything else I'm a human being -- just as much as you are... or at any rate I shall try to become one. I know quite well that most people would agree with you, Torvald, and that you have warrant for it in books; but I can't be satisfied any longer with what most people say, and with what's in books. I must think things out for myself and try to understand them.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will. ✨ Henrik Ibsen (2014). Ibsen Plays: 5: Brand; Emperor and Galilean, p.52, A&C Black
Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too. ✨ The Master Builder act 3 (1892)
A forest bird never wants a cage. ✨ Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Jens Arup (1998). Four Major Plays, p.339, Oxford University Press, USA
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. ✨ Henrik Ibsen (2014). Ibsen Plays: 4: John Gabriel Borkman; Pill … ▶
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.

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