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You don't get nothing for nothing in this life.

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 strongest men are the most alone.
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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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The strong must learn to be lonely.
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If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
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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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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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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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It is not by spectacular achievements that man can be transformed, but by will.
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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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