A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.
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 majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
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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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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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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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The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
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So to conduct one’s life as to realize oneself-this seems to me the highest attainment possible to a human being. It is the task of one and all of us, but most of us bungle it.
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there’s no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it’s an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
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This is life! It can harden and it can exalt!
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That is the accursed thing about small surroundings — they make the soul small.
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When you’ve sold yourself once for the sake of others, you don’t do it second time.
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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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It’s not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. It’s all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can’t get rid of them.
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An unromantic poem I mean to make, of one who only lives for duty’s sake.
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Writing has… been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
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What ought a man be? Well, my short answer is ‘himself’.
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