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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

Henrik Ibsen

Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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Character Himself Modeling Rate
What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Fair Majority Support Truth
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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Acceptance Answer Finding Myself Preparation Try
Don’t use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
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Excellence Foreign Ideal Lying Word
Our whole being is nothing but a fight against the dark forces within ourselves.
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Darkness Existence Fight Force Ourselves
Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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Brave Courage Life Live Oneself
The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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Compact Dangerous Enemy Majority
It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Lying Oneself Self
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Freedom Society Spirituality Truth
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
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Beautiful Freedom Home Life
Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see Ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea. We are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.
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Country Ghost Light Myself Newspaper
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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Serious Sin Yourself
What’s to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.
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Cold Healing Sick Sound
Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Hustle Moaning Myself

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