The starving poet business is no good nowadays.
HENRIK IBSENThe starving poet business is no good nowadays.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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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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I have other duties equally sacred, Duties to myself.
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The devil is compromise.
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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The sea possesses a power over one’s moods that has the effect of a will. The sea can hypnotize. Nature in general can do so.
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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I’m inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It’s not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.
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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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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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You have never loved me. You have only thought it pleasant to be in love with me.
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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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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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