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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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Henrik Johan Ibsen
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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 spectacles of experience through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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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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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.
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