The great task of our time is to blow up all existing institutions to destroy.
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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Many a man can save himself if he admits he’s done wrong and takes his punishment.
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I’ve had the best possible chance of learning that what the working-classes really need is to be allowed some part in the direction of public affairs, Doctorto develop their abilities, their understanding and their self-respect.
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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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The man-at-arms is the only man.
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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
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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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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.
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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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Marriage is something you have to give your whole mind to.
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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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It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
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Really to sin you have to be serious about it.
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To live is to war with trolls in heart and woul. To write is to sit in judgement on oneself.
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Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.
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If only I could master that demon of procrastination that goes about like a roaring lion and devours all my good intentions, I should become the most punctual man in the world.
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