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Henrik Ibsen
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tags: [playwright]
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Definition:[1828 - 1906]a Norwegian playwright famous for his "scandalous" plays that included characters dealing with moral issues, cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy
photo: By Gustav Borgen - Gustav Borgen, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19082792
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Peter Stockmann: Taking one thing with another, there is an excellent spirit of toleration in the town—an admirable municipal spirit. And it all springs from the fact of our having a great common interest to unite us—an interest that is in an equally high degree the concern of every right-minded citizen.
Henrik Ibsen. An Enemy of the People.
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“‘The strongest man on earth is he who stands most alone.’”
“Excuse me?”
“That’s Ibsen. Another gloomy Nord, but palatable in small doses.”
Carl Hiaasen. Star Island (2010)
“Excuse me?”
“That’s Ibsen. Another gloomy Nord, but palatable in small doses.”
Carl Hiaasen. Star Island (2010)
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Shaw had sugar-coated Nietzsche and Ibsen and Schopenhauer.
F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise (1920)
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As for style, he was not altogether of his time (though he remained quite exclusively of his race, abominating Tolstoy, George Eliot, Ibsen and Dostoievsky), for the word that always came to his lips when he wished to praise the style of any writer was ‘mild.’
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]
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