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Nobody can put a character on paper without - at any rate in part and at times - sitting as a model for it himself.

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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.
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The devil is compromise.
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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