Happiness is above all things the calm, glad certainty of innocence.
HENRIK IBSENMost 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.
More Henrik Ibsen Quotes
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.
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I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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It is no use lying to one’s self.
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Oh, one soon makes friends with invalids; and I need so much to have someone to live for.
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I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Oh courage, oh yes! If only one had that. Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.
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When we dead awaken. We see that we have never lived.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom-they are the pillars of society.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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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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I must make up my mind which is right – society or I.
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The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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