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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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A friend married is a friend lost.
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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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The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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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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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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The devil is compromise.
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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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Money brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintances, but not friends.
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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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Oh courage...oh yes! If only one had that...Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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The majority never has right on its side.
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In your power, all the same. Subject to your will and your demands. No longer free! No! That's a thought I'll never endure! Never.
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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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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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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 younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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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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