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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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Money may be the husk of many things but not the kernel. It brings you food, but not appetite medicine, but not health acquaintance, but not friends servants, but not loyalty days of joy, but not peace or happiness.
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The strongest men are the most alone.
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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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Ive had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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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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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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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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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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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 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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What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
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