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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
Henrik Ibsen
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Henrik Ibsen
Age: 78 †
Born: 1828
Born: March 20
Died: 1906
Died: May 23
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools?
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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I am sticking as closely to my subject as I can for my subject is precisely this, that it is the masses, the majority
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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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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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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