I don’t imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
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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Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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Labor and trouble one can always get through alone, but it takes two to be glad.
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Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.
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Whether I pound or am being pounded, all the same there will be moaning!
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Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing.
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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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Nobody can put a character on paper without – at any rate in part and at times – sitting as a model for it himself.
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But a scientific man must live in a little bit of style.
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In the decisive moment I won the victory over myself. I chose to live. And believe me, it takes courage to choose life under those circumstances.
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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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Oh yes, right-right. What is the use of having right on your side if you have not got might?
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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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To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?
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You see, there are some people that one loves, and others that perhaps one would rather be with.
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