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Henrik Ibsen Quotes
Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."
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The majority never has right on its side. Never, I say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in any given country? Is it the wise men or the fools? I think we must agree that the fools are in a terrible overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.
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Birth: | 20th March, 1828 |
Death: | 23rd May, 1906 |
Nationality: | Norwegian |
Profession: | Playwright |
Henrik Johan Ibsen was born in Skien, Grenland, Norway. He was a Norwegian playwright, theatre director and poet. His major works include Brand, Peer Gynt, An Enemy of the People, Emperor and Galilean, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, Pillars of Society, The Lady from the Sea, Rosmersholm, The Master Builder and John Gabriel Borkman. He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century.
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