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.
HENRIK IBSENA thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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Happiness is worth a daring deed; we are both free if we but will it, and then the game is won.
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Almost everyone who has gone to the bad early in life has had a deceitful mother.
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You don’t get nothing for nothing in this life.
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Each bird must sing with his own throat.
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I’m afraid for all those who’ll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!
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What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one’s self?
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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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A forest bird never wants a cage.
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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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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
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Helmer: I would gladly work night and day for you. Nora- bear sorrow and want for your sake. But no man would sacrafice his honor for the one he loves. Nora: It is a thing hundreds of thousands of women have done.
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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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