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The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

Henrik Ibsen

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 must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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Mindset Myself Society
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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Experience Time Willing Yourself
An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Live Myself Poem Responsibility Romantic
Every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
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Himself Man Responsibility Share Society
You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Life Yourself
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
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself — thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
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Criticism Essential Feeling Finding Himself Mistake Thinking
But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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Live Man Science Style
Oh, yes–you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side–unfortunately; but right it has not.
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Known Myself Right Yourself
I go to scale the Future’s possibilities! Farewell!
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Future Inspirational Myself Possible Scale
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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Finding Heart Himself Man Please
Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society’s tools, neither more nor less.
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Count Society Yourself
The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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Minority Rare Right Wrong
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through.
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Close Live Myself Relate Writing
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke.
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Average Happiness Himself Man Stroke

The starving poet business is no good nowadays.

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