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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 you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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It is no use lying to one's self.
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The spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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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 majority is always wrong the minority is rarely right.
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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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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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The greatest victory is defeat.
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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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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.
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I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
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It's such sport with these heroes of finance: they are like beads on a string — when one slips off, all the rest follow.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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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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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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