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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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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that the earth moved around the sun and let Galileo be driven to his knees like a dog? It takes fifty years for the majority to be right. The majority is never right until it does right.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately but right it has not.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
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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 you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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