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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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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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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 spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Mrs LINDE: When you've sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don't do it second time.
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NORA: I must stand on my own two feet if I'm to get to know myself and the world outside. That's why I can't stay here with you any longer.
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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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A thousand words can't make the mark a single deed will leave.
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It is not for a care-free existence I am fighting, but for the possibility of devoting myself to the task which I believe and know has been laid upon me by God -- the work which seems to me more important and needful in Norway than any other, that of arousing the nation and leading it to think great thoughts.
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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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The majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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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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When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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It is the very mark of the spirit of rebellion to crave for happiness in this life
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I have other duties equally sacred ... Duties to myself.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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