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Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.

Henrik Ibsen
Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet (1828–1906)

Henrik Johan Ibsen was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playwrights of his time. 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, Rosmersholm, and The Master Builder. Ibsen is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare, and A Doll's House was the world's most performed play in 2006.
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Common sense is the measure of the possible it is composed of experience and prevision it is calculation applied to life.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.
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Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.
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The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.
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Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel
Swiss philosopher and poet (1821-1881)

Henri Frédéric Amiel was a Swiss moral philosopher, poet, and critic.
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You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

Henri Bergson
French philosopher

Henri-Louis Bergson was a French philosopher who was influential in the tradition of analytic philosophy and continental philosophy, especially during the first half of the 20th century until the Second World War, but also after 1966 when Gilles Deleuze published Le Bergsonisme. Bergson is known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality.
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My brother was a lifeguard in a car wash.

Henny Youngman
American comedian (1906-1998)

Henry "Henny" Youngman was an American comedian and musician famous for his mastery of the "one-liner", his best known being "Take my wife... please".
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I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.

Henning Mankell
Swedish writer, human rights activist and dramatist

Henning Georg Mankell was a Swedish crime writer, children's author, and dramatist, best known for a series of mystery novels starring his most noted creation, Inspector Kurt Wallander. He also wrote a number of plays and screenplays for television.
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Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

Helen Rowland
American journalist

Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).
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The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Helen Rowland
American journalist

Helen May Rowland was an American journalist and humorist. For many years she wrote a column in the New York World called "Reflections of a Bachelor Girl". Many of her pithy insights from these columns were published in book form, including Reflections of a Bachelor Girl (1909), The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor (1915), and A Guide to Men (1922).
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