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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 is no use lying to one's self.
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So to conduct one's life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.
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One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
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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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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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HELMER But this is disgraceful. Is this the way you neglect your most sacred duties? NORA: What do you consider is my most sacred duty? HELMER: Do I have to tell you that? Isn't it your duty to your husband and children? NORA:I have another duty, just as sacred. HELMER: You can't have. What duty do you mean? NORA: My duty to myself.
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Look into any man's heart you please, and you will always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has to keep concealed.
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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 devil is compromise.
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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Helmer: Before all else you are a wife and a mother. Nora: That I no longer believe. I believe that before all else I am a human being.
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